Placeholder attribute not supported in IE. Any suggestions?

Question

What do you all use to support placeholder attributes in browsers?

Currently, am using:

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/Placeholder-jQuery-Plugin

Ha

Answer 1

In fact none of the IE's as of Oct 19th 2011 support the placeholder attribute. I've tested it in 7, 8, and 9 and none of them seem to recognize it. You'd think ie9, seeing as how it's supposed to support css3 and html5 would have fixed this but it does not appear so.

As a simple workaround that isn't pretty but gets the job done you can use some javascript like this: